Adobe After Effects Course for Beginners

Learn to animate graphics and visual effects in this Adobe After Effects Course for Beginners



2 x 6 hours

Class size 1 to 12 (public classes), 5 to 20
  $529 (Afterpay & PayPal Pay in 4 available)

Learning how to create animations has become an essential tool for developing digital content. Adobe After Effects enables you to create motion graphics and visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web. Whether you are a graphic designer, web designer, video editor, or even a visual artist, this two-day Adobe After Effects training course is designed to help you harness the power of the software and add a valuable skill to your creative toolkit.

This After Effects course will enable you to create cinematic film titles, intros, and transitions, animate logos and text, and create stunning visual effects. Open up a world of 2D & 3D animation and take on After Effects with this 2-day training course!

Learning outcomes

  • Adequately use keyframes and layers to produce moving text and/or logos
  • Understand composition workflow in the After Effects interface
  • Understand the use of masks and how they apply to motion graphics
  • Be able to plan and execute basic special effects tasks

Ideal for

Graphic designers, filmmakers, video editors, web designers, and visual artists may benefit the most from this course; however, this course is ideal for anyone interested in motion graphics and digital animation. Basic competency with computers is assumed before enrolling, proficiency in other Adobe software is helpful but not essential for enrollment.

Course content

This is an all-hands-on course with exercises that show and practise you in:

  • Composition creation;
  • Applying visual effects;
  • Best practise when creating shapes;
  • Creating, formatting, and editing text;
  • Animating layers with keyframes;
  • Understanding interpolation types;
  • First steps in masking with layer masks;
  • Importing stills/video footage – Transform techniques;
  • Making one layer follow another with parenting;

This is a crash training course in Adobe After Effects, so the facilitator will aim to fit in as much content as possible; however, they might not be able to cover some of the above in time. If you have a specific aspect of the program you are interested in learning, then please let the tutor know.

What you'll get

This course runs in our computer lab, fitted with 27-inch Apple iMac systems as well as Dell computers running the Windows operating system. Both types of computers have the latest Adobe apps installed. Adobe products function the same on both Windows and Macintosh computers except for minor differences with keyboard usage and where files are located within the computer.

Knowledge required

Beginner-friendly.

What to bring

- A USB stick (minimum 32GB) or portable hard drive (minimum 500GB) for storing your data (optional). - Pen and paper or device to take notes.

Session repeats

This class series runs over 2 consecutive days.

Location

Sydney Community College - 2A Gordon St, Rozelle NSW

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Antony Brown

Antony Brown


Antony is an Adobe and Apple Certified Instructor with over 15 years of experience teaching industry-leading design software. He began his training career with Adobe in London and has since worked with major clients such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Westpac, and the Australian Federal Police.

Antony is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CC, After Effects CS5, Premiere Pro CC, Audition, and Video Specialisation, and holds Apple certifications in Final Cut Pro X and 7. He is passionate about empowering learners and helping them achieve lasting skill development.




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Sydney Community College
Sydney Community College

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Sydney Community College is a social enterprise with a mission to offer innovative continuing adult education programmes that support individual efforts and facilitate sustainable social change.
Our mission is to enrich lives, to strengthen adult individuals and to build communities through innovative high quality continuing education and training.

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